MET LARP SRD
(2013 BNS MET System)
Presence
The beauty and elegance of vampires has inspired generations of mortals to write poetry, songs, and stories, each struggling to relate the magnificence of these seductive undead. A vampire’s natural aura of command, intimidation, or sensuality draws the attention like nothing else, and practitioners of the Presence discipline have mastered this ability. Such creatures can inspire or terrify, seduce or bring about tremendous despair as they withdraw their attention from an unfortunate paramour.
Through the use of Presence, vampires practice subtle manipulation. Where Dominate is a hammer, Presence is an iron hand in a velvet glove. This discipline sways the emotions and may not even be noticed, if the effects are applied cunningly enough. Presence doesn’t alter thought processes or change a subject’s personality; it simply enflames the target’s affections and sentiments, compelling her with newborn emotions.
Presence targets don’t lose their sanity, nor are they prone to believe ridiculous things simply because the vampire said they are true. Still, inspiration, eloquence, or gifts of wealth or power, when used in combination with this discipline, can earn permanent conversions to the vampire’s cause.
“Her smile brought me a fiendish joy. Her silence drove me to angelic despair. Can you understand what it is to love that deeply?”
To activate Awe, spend 1 Blood point and expend a standard action. For the remainder of the scene, you seem larger than life, more impressive than usual, and everyone within conversational distance...
Expend a standard action as your character bares her fangs and hisses or roars at her target, and then make an opposed challenge against your target. If you are successful, she is overcome by fear....
To activate Entrancement, spend 1 Blood, expend a standard action and make an opposed challenge against your target. If successful, you bend your target’s emotions and capture her heart. She becomes...
To Summon another individual, spend 1 point of Blood and expend a standard action. Make an opposed challenge against a familiar target. Once you have begun a Summons, you cannot leave the area where...
Spend 1 Blood and expend a standard action to activate Majesty. For the next hour, you appear to be the apotheosis of your character’s best nature – astonishingly beautiful, terrifyingly evil, regal...
When attempting to use the Presence powers of Dread Gaze or Entrancement, you may choose to spend 1 additional point of Blood to activate Capricious Visage and target a number of individuals within...
Spend one point of Blood and your simple action as you rally a group to your cause designating a number of targets up to the number of dots you have in the Leadership skill as your comrades. You may...
To activate Paralyzing Glance, you must spend 2 Blood, expend your standard action to stare intently at your target, and make an opposed challenge against your opponent, using the Presence test pool....
To activate Love, spend 3 Blood, expend your standard action, and make an opposed Social challenge against your opponent, using the Presence test pool. If you succeed, your target is suddenly...
When activating Majesty, you may spend 3 additional points of Blood to enact Cooperation. As a result, those affected by your Majesty must cooperate with your intended efforts to the best of their...
Spend 1 point of blood and your simple action as an overwhelming and baleful aura surrounds you. Any who look upon you will intuitively understand that crossing you is likely to carry harmful...
Level 1
To activate Awe, spend 1 Blood point and expend a standard action. For the remainder of the scene, you seem larger than life, more impressive than usual, and everyone within conversational distance...
Level 2
Expend a standard action as your character bares her fangs and hisses or roars at her target, and then make an opposed challenge against your target. If you are successful, she is overcome by fear....
Level 3
To activate Entrancement, spend 1 Blood, expend a standard action and make an opposed challenge against your target. If successful, you bend your target’s emotions and capture her heart. She becomes...
Level 4
To Summon another individual, spend 1 point of Blood and expend a standard action. Make an opposed challenge against a familiar target. Once you have begun a Summons, you cannot leave the area where...
Level 5
Spend 1 Blood and expend a standard action to activate Majesty. For the next hour, you appear to be the apotheosis of your character’s best nature – astonishingly beautiful, terrifyingly evil, regal...
Level 6
When attempting to use the Presence powers of Dread Gaze or Entrancement, you may choose to spend 1 additional point of Blood to activate Capricious Visage and target a number of individuals within...
Spend one point of Blood and your simple action as you rally a group to your cause designating a number of targets up to the number of dots you have in the Leadership skill as your comrades. You may...
To activate Paralyzing Glance, you must spend 2 Blood, expend your standard action to stare intently at your target, and make an opposed challenge against your opponent, using the Presence test pool....
To activate Love, spend 3 Blood, expend your standard action, and make an opposed Social challenge against your opponent, using the Presence test pool. If you succeed, your target is suddenly...
Level 7
When activating Majesty, you may spend 3 additional points of Blood to enact Cooperation. As a result, those affected by your Majesty must cooperate with your intended efforts to the best of their...
Spend 1 point of blood and your simple action as an overwhelming and baleful aura surrounds you. Any who look upon you will intuitively understand that crossing you is likely to carry harmful...